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<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday <a rel="noopener" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/health/fda-will-propose-new-regulations-for-e-cigarettes.html" target="_blank">proposed new rules</a> that expanded its regulatory authority from cigarettes to electronic cigarettes for the first time. E-cigarettes, initially lauded as a tool to help smokers ween themselves off nicotine, has garnered significant attention lately on account of <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/life/health/study-are-e-cigarettes-causing-smokers-to-light-up-or-burn-out.html/" target="_blank">new studies indicating</a> that e-cigarettes are leading to less people quitting, not more. Now, it is clear that the FDA is ready to exercise some regulation over e-cigarettes. Up until now, the e-cigarette business has been conducted with virtually no federal oversight or protections for American consumers, but that’s all about to change.</p>
<p>According to <em>The New York Times, </em>the FDA’s new proposed rules would ban the sale of e-cigarettes, cigars, and pipe tobacco to Americans under 18, and also require that people buying them show photo identification to prove their age. The regulation has been in the works for four years now, ever since Congress passed a major tobacco-control law in 2009, but the FDA still has a far way to go, as federal officials and advocates expect it to take at least another year for the rules to take effect.</p>
<p>Still, the FDA released its regulatory blueprint on Thursday: it is 100 pages long and recognized the day as an important step in the process to eventually tightening up the rules surrounding e-cigarettes. David B. Abrams, executive director of the Schroeder National Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at the Legacy Foundation, an antismoking research group, seemed optimistic about the new pending regulation. He said to <em>The New York Times</em>, “You won’t be able to mix nicotine in your bathtub and sell it anymore.”</p>
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